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Pooja p
10 months agoExplorer | Level 3
How can I prevent team members from sharing or downloading the data to use them as their own?
I am planning to start a work account with Dropbox, but my profession revolves around highly valuable data. My main concern is whether other users with access to the shared Dropbox account can downlo...
Pooja p
9 months agoExplorer | Level 3
Thanks for looking in to this,
but most of our data is synced on time for every users in their respective hard drives, so is there any way to get notified when one of them moves or copies any of these data from their hard drives to their personal storage devices ?
- Mark9 months ago
Super User II
Pooja p wrote:
is there any way to get notified when one of them moves or copies any of these data from their hard drives to their personal storage devices ?
No there isnt.
There also isnt any way to stop them copying/pasting it, or, if we are going to be really honest even if that was the case there is nothing to stop them opening it, copying and pasting the text etc. in to another file and saving that.
If you want to secure the devices/drives etc. you'll need to find some specific software that does that with the whole harddrive - because Dropbox is literally just a folder on it like all others.
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